Rutgers files lawsuit against Big East

University seeks to cut short 27-month wait

5:34 AM,
Dec. 6, 2012

Written by

Keith Sargeant
| @RUScuttlebutt

Forty-seven minutes before announcing its move to the Big Ten Conference in an afternoon press conference Nov. 20, a lawyer representing Rutgers filed a lawsuit against the Big East at the Middlesex County Courthouse.

Thus began the first step in what figures to be an acrimonious split between Rutgers and the conference of which it has been a member for football since 1991 and for all sports since 1995.

In a complaint filed by attorney David W. Field of Lowenstein Sandler, Rutgers is suing the Big East in an attempt to avoid paying a $5 million-to-$10 million exit fee, to recover millions it ...